README.md

YUI Compressor - The Yahoo! JavaScript and CSS Compressor

The YUI Compressor is a JavaScript compressor which, in addition to removing
comments and white-spaces, obfuscates local variables using the smallest
possible variable name. This obfuscation is safe, even when using constructs
such as 'eval' or 'with' (although the compression is not optimal is those
cases) Compared to jsmin, the average savings is around 20%.

The YUI Compressor is also able to safely compress CSS files. The decision
on which compressor is being used is made on the file extension (js or css)

Building

ant

Testing

./tests/suite.sh

Node.js Package

You can require compressor in a Node.js package and compress files and strings in async.
It still uses Java under the hood

npm i yuicompressor

var compressor =require('yuicompressor');
compressor.compress('/path/to/file or String of JS', {
//Compressor Options:
charset:'utf8',
type:'js',
nomunge:true,
'line-break':80
}, function(err, data, extra) {
//err If compressor encounters an error, it's stderr will be here//data The compressed string, you write it out where you want it//extra The stderr (warnings are printed here in case you want to echo them
});

Options:

charset // defaults to 'utf8'

type // defaults to 'js'

line-break

nomunge

preserve-semi

disable-optimizations

TODO

Better Docs

Help Pages

Build Status

Global Options

-h, --help
Prints help on how to use the YUI Compressor
--line-break
Some source control tools don't like files containing lines longer than,
say 8000 characters. The linebreak option is used in that case to split
long lines after a specific column. It can also be used to make the code
more readable, easier to debug (especially with the MS Script Debugger)
Specify 0 to get a line break after each semi-colon in JavaScript, and
after each rule in CSS.
--type js|css
The type of compressor (JavaScript or CSS) is chosen based on the
extension of the input file name (.js or .css) This option is required
if no input file has been specified. Otherwise, this option is only
required if the input file extension is neither 'js' nor 'css'.
--charset character-set
If a supported character set is specified, the YUI Compressor will use it
to read the input file. Otherwise, it will assume that the platform's
default character set is being used. The output file is encoded using
the same character set.
-o outfile
Place output in file outfile. If not specified, the YUI Compressor will
default to the standard output, which you can redirect to a file.
Supports a filter syntax for expressing the output pattern when there are
multiple input files. ex:
java -jar yuicompressor.jar -o '.css$:-min.css' *.css
... will minify all .css files and save them as -min.css
-v, --verbose
Display informational messages and warnings.

JavaScript Only Options

--nomunge
Minify only. Do not obfuscate local symbols.
--preserve-semi
Preserve unnecessary semicolons (such as right before a '}') This option
is useful when compressed code has to be run through JSLint (which is the
case of YUI for example)
--disable-optimizations
Disable all the built-in micro optimizations.

Notes

If no input file is specified, it defaults to stdin.

Supports wildcards for specifying multiple input files.

The YUI Compressor requires Java version >= 1.5.

It is possible to prevent a local variable, nested function or function
argument from being obfuscated by using "hints". A hint is a string that
is located at the very beginning of a function body like so:

Modified Rhino Files

YUI Compressor uses a modified version of the Rhino library
(http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/) The changes were made to support
JScript conditional comments, preserved comments, unescaped slash
characters in regular expressions, and to allow for the optimization
of escaped quotes in string literals.

Copyright And License

Copyright (c) 2013 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
The copyrights embodied in the content of this file are licensed
by Yahoo! Inc. under the BSD (revised) open source license.